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I have read it is on longer this year .. cant wait
, can't wait lol.
The trailer is markedly different from previous years, not only is the flaming eye based on a real eye for the first time since the very first Big Brother series but also the iconic theme tune which accompanies the trailer has had a dramatic orchestral overhaul. Dark and foreboding to start with the music climaxes in a familiar theatrical frenzy suggesting this series is going to get truly explosive. The show is being billed as Celebrity Big Brother â âHell Lies in Othersâ and by the look of the trailer, which will premiere on Channel 4 this Sunday, Big Brother clearly has some fiery plans in store Letâs hope the famous faces who have signed up for a stay in the house werenât banking on having a relaxing time.
On Sunday 3rd January the series will launch with a select group of the notable and the notorious entering Britainâs most famous TV house. The In this seventh and final series to air of Channel 4 the celebrity housemates may think they know whatâs coming but for them 2010 will begin with some of the most unpredictable and unforgettable weeks of their lives.
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A countdown of the most memorable, hysterical and cringe-worthy moments of Celebrity Big Brother from the past six series as ranked by the viewers.
From celebrity outbursts such as Leo Sayer's refusal to do his own washing, and John McCririck's wrath on being denied diet cola, to watching love unfold when fake celebrity Chantelle and Ordinary Boy Preston first laid eyes on each other, CBB has kept the nation thoroughly entertained.
This show also takes a look back at some of the more difficult moments from CBB - in 2007, the fractious relationship between Shilpa Shetty and Jade Goody sparked heated debate and dominated the headlines around the world.
Many of the best moments from CBB down the years have involved some unlikely partnerships: be it Ulrika Jonsson and Verne Troyer singing Endless Love, to the moment that made a whole nation cringe when MP George Galloway took his role as a cat a bit too far with actress Rula Lenska. Where else would you see a gangsta rapper from the rough end of L.A (Coolio) and a foul-mouthed Liverpudlian (Tina Malone) disagree over the weekly shop?
This show features interviews with former CBB Housemates: including Pete Burns, John McCririck, Vanessa Feltz, Maggot, Kenzie, Terry Christian, Lucy Pinder and Jodie Marsh.
| Date | Time | Channel |
|---|---|---|
| Monday 28 December | 9PM | E4 |
| Thursday 31 December | 9PM | Channel 4 |
| Saturday 02 January | 11.10PM | E4 |
| Sunday 03 January | 12.25PM | Channel 4 |
PETER Andre could follow his ex-wife Katie Price onto reality TV when Celebrity Big Brother hits the screens.
Celebrity Big Brother bosses are doing all they can to encourage a romance on the final series of the show. Producers on the Channel 4 reality TV show are rumoured to have completely revamped the house and installed a sauna, a hot tub and a cosy snug in a bid to get things hot and steamy in the shouse.
A source told The Daily Star:
âItâs the last-ever Celebrity Big Brother
and since itâs always held in freezing January then we need to turn up the heat. The new Big Brother eye logo is on fire. So thatâs a clear sign that the producers plan to send temperatures â and ratings â through the ry think a sauna, a hot tub and a cosy snug in the garden are just the things to get the stars in the mood for some saucy antics.
âWeâve only ever had one romance on Celebrity Big Brother â Chantelle and Preston. How brilliant would it be if we had one on the final show?
Boy George is going to appear in court to ask a judge if he can appear on Celebrity Big Brother.
The 48-year-old was released from jail earlier this year after falsely imprisoning a male escort.
British taxpayers could face a bill of thousands of pounds as lawyers defend a probation service decision to bar him.
It is claimed he has already agreed a ÂĢ200,000 fee with Channel 4 to appear on the show and under his release licence, he is only able to do 'approved' work and his probation officer must be able to visit him.
The London Probation said a request to appear on the reality show would breach the licence terms.
An insider said: 'George is desperate to take part. He thinks it will be the perfect way for people to see what he's really like.'
Commons Home Affairs committee chairman Keith Vaz said he would be 'horrified' if public money is used to fight the case.
A spokeswoman for Channel 4 said: 'We respect what the Probation Service has said but if George is free, we'd love to have him.'
The show is the last one in the series and starts on January 3.
Alex Reid is rumoured to be appearing on Celebrity Big BrotherThe cagefighter will be kept on a tight leash by his girlfriend though, to make sure he doesn't reveal personal information about their relationship.
Jordan is allegedly giving Alex tips on how to present himself while on the show, The Daily Mirror reported.
Katie, 31, is worried that CBB bosses will offer her beau alcohol while in the house to encourage him to spill their secrets and therefore has set strict guidelines for Alex to follow.
Alex reportedly wants Britain to see the real him and for the public to understand why Katie fell for him.
Boy George is also tipped to have agreed to a ÂĢ200,000 deal to appear on the show but is worried his court judge will not let him.
Since being released from jail in May, George can only do 'approved' work and his probation officer has to be able to visit him, The Sun reported.
Other celebrities rumoured to appear on the reality TV show are Pamela Anderson and rapper MC Hammer.
Celebrity Big Brother starts in the new year on January 3.
What is your role on Celebrity Big Brother?
Iâm the Executive Producer. My role is to come up with a vision for the show â the look and the feel of it, to put a cast together and steer a way through it. I work closely with Phil (Philip Edgar Jones), the creative director, and oversee all the different elements of it. We look after the launch show, nominations, how we change things, the tasks, and hopefully deliver a compelling show.
I hope so! Weâve tried really hard to look at the show with fresh eyes to assess what we can improve upon, and what we can change, especially with this being the last one. We have introduced some changes, in the house, in the tasks, and with the launch show, which will be a bit different this year. We hope those changes will be surprising and unexpected. Weâve changed some little things this time as well. In the past six years, celebrities have been limited to just one suitcase. But thereâs something quite interesting about letting them decide how much luggage they bring. What they bring says something about them. But that doesnât mean itâll be an easy ride. I think a lot of people feel that the celebrities get an easier time compared with the guys in the summer, and itâs not going to happen this time. I think theyâre going to be in for a bit of a rollercoaster ride. We intend to go out with a bang.
Will it be a new house?
Usually Celebrity Big Brother uses the house from the summer series but there are some big changes this year. Thatâs all I am going to say right now though!
How do you go about recruiting for Celebrity Big Brother?
We have our celebrity bookers, and we all come up with a list of people weâd be interested in meeting. It can be difficult with celebrities, by the very nature of what they do, you donât always get to know the real person underneath. Part of the beauty of Celebrity Big Brother is trying to peel off those layers and find the real person beneath the celebrity. So we want a mix of ages, genders, professions, backgrounds. Ideally weâd like celebrities who have never met one another, but itâs very difficult to be 100 per cent certain of who knows who. Itâs an interesting challenge to get it right â do you provide great names that might not be as exciting as you hoped, or do you find lesser-known people who are great characters? Itâs all a bit of a juggling process, but we are confident we have a diverse mix of people who we think will make for compulsive viewing.
What precautions do you take to keep housematesâ identities secret before the launch show? It must be like MI6 there.
It is! Itâs one of those things where you can get someone confirmed right at the start, and then youâve got to keep it a secret for five months. Itâs really hard. Only a small handful of people know the identity of the celebrities weâve booked. You have to trust people to keep it secret. We like people to be entertained and surprised on launch night. We even use code names for them: they stop being known by their real names. Thereâs always speculation, and there always will be, some of itâs pretty good and some is quite far off the mark. At some points in the past, the press has got absolutely the right person, but even then you never know if itâs just guesswork or if they somehow found out.
How far in advance is the final line-up confirmed? Have you ever found yourself desperately trying to recruit celebrities at the last minute?
We try as hard as we can to get them booked as far in advance as we can. But itâs an ongoing process, piecing together the right mix of people. I donât think weâve ever had to look for people at the last minute, but sometimes we decide who to choose from our list quite late on.
Has it been easier to get celebrities involved this year because itâs the final year of the show?
Yes. A lot of people have turned out to be interested this year, some of whom have really surprised us. Theyâve said that as itâs the last one, theyâre interested. Thatâs really nice, because it means weâve got a wider pool of celebrities to choose from.
One of the most popular elements of the show over the years has been the tasks. Can we look forward to the usual creative brilliance on that front?
The task teams have worked so hard to be even more creative than theyâve ever been. I think this series will have some very interesting and unique tasks, the likes of which weâve never had on the show before. I think people expect the getting dressed up in costumes and performing, but itâs worth staying tuned to see what weâre going to put them through, because it will be different.
The filming process must be pretty intensive for you. How much time do you spend on site during the series?
Iâll be there every day. Every waking moment is spent on the series. Even if Iâm not there, Iâm on call 24 hours a day. Iâve written off January already. But when youâre there, you donât really want to leave it, to be honest. You just sit there watching whatâs going on in the house, and itâs really hard to leave it. Iâm really excited about it; the whole teamâs excited about it.
What have been your favourite Celebrity Big Brother moments over the years?
There are always the ones that stand out that everybody chooses, and Iâm going to be really predictable and say the same ones. I loved John McCririck, he was a great housemate. And the moment Jackie Stallone entered was superb, especially because weâd planned it. George Galloway being the cat, and George and Pete Burns doing the robotics were brilliant. Last year, Verne Troyer crashing into the diary room door on his scooter. Every series you hope youâre going to get that YouTube moment where you want to watch it over and over again, and you laugh every time you see it.
What, to your mind, would make the perfect Celebrity Big Brother this time around?
Iâm looking forward to seeing the celebrities doing some of these new tasks, because theyâre really going to be something to watch! I want a bit of unpredictability, and we always want some laughs. Everyone always says âOh, you just want people to fight all the time,â and actually thatâs not really true. We want it to entertain, and seeing a celebrity do something thatâs funny is great. I hope that itâs going to be a bit of a rollercoaster, and I hope that we go out with a bang. The best thing would be if we could finish and people say âIâm sorry thatâs gone.â If we leave on a high and weâve all had fun and itâs been an entertaining ride, then I think weâve all done our job.
Davina McCall has presented Big Brother and Celebrity Big Brother since the shows first went on air. She will present both for the last time in 2010. Here, an emotional McCall looks back over past series of Celebrity Big Brother, looks ahead to the forthcoming series, and reveals why she could never be a housemate herself.
I read that you cried when you heard that 2010 would be the last year of Big Brother and Celebrity Big Brother. Is that true?
Yeah. I think it was just the shock of it. I just thought that Big Brother was going to go on for ever. I was quite devastated. But time is always quite helpful, isnât it? I ended up thinking âWell, the brilliant thing is, theyâve given us another year, and we can just make it a fantastic year. Letâs go out with a big bang.
Your enthusiasm for the show comes across every time you talk about it. Why has it meant so much to you?
I think that anybody that watches it as much as I do will also have the same enthusiasm. Twitter has been a bit of a saving grace for me, realising how much it means to people. If I were to listen to people at dinner parties, they all get a bit snooty and intellectually snobby about Big Brother, and how itâs the lowest of the low. âYou donât really enjoy doing it, do you?â; I never really understand where that comes from. Maybe Iâm just being naÃŊve. When youâve got lots of other programmes that do far worse things than Big Brother, it seems odd that itâs got such an evil reputation. When you watch every single episode since its beginning, I think itâs one of the cleverest, funniest, most moving and thought-provoking programmes Iâve ever seen. So I canât sing its praises highly enough. Iâm always a bit dismayed when people ask me if Iâm faking my enthusiasm. I get really defensive, because I really like it, and I feel I have to defend it.
Coming up, then, weâve got the last ever Celebrity Big Brother. Are there moves afoot to give it a spectacular send-off?
I think everybody is really thinking about making this a really creative, brilliant send-off. I think that potentially there will be celebrities who are interested in doing it because itâs the last year. All the people who think âIâll maybe do it one dayâ are now thinking âIâll never get this opportunity again!â So thereâs a bit of a rush on. I think weâll have very good people.
Any little hints as to who?
[Laughs] You know whatâs quite funny? I quite like not reading the papers so Iâve got no idea who theyâre even speculating about. But I can tell you that itâs not Jordan! Sheâs done enough!
Any little hints, then, about what might be happening in the series?
It would just ruin it. I donât want to give any inkling of anything. People love the surprise. I love the surprise a lot of the time.
It must be quite an operation, keeping the housematesâ identities secret?
Weâre always happiest when people donât know whoâs going in, because itâs so much more fun for the viewers, waiting to discover.
What would you say if they came to you and said âDavina, someoneâs pulled out, you have to go inâ?
Oh, my husband wouldnât let me.
I donât believe you always do what youâre told by your husband.
Oh, I do. I absolutely do, because heâs really, really good with me and all my madnesses, and snogging David Tenant on Comic Relief and stuff. I push the boat out a lot, but I just think that going into Celebrity Big Brother would be the final straw. Heâd hate it. He likes â we like, itâs not just him â a private life out of our public life. Thatâs really precious to both of us, and to our children. On Celebrity Big Brother thereâs nowhere to hide. You have to be prepared to bare all.
On the subject of your husband, do you ever tell him secrets about the show?
I donât tell him who the housemates are. I might tell him that the night before. Itâs too big a thing. If he got grilled by somebody, he might be tempted, or might let something slip. Itâs too big a thing. And anyway, heâs busy with his stuff, so he doesnât really ask me. Heâll start asking me after Christmas, I imagine.
Do you get sick and tired of people asking for little tips and hints and names?
No, because itâs the one time Iâm really good at keeping a secret. I feel quite smug about knowing something nobody else does. Itâs a bit like being pregnant, in your first trimester, that feeling of knowing something that no one else does.
Youâll be presenting E4âs Big Brotherâs Big Mouth again as well, wonât you?
Yes, definitely. I really enjoy doing Big Mouth. It reminds me of when I used to do MTV. Itâs quite reminiscent of that, itâs really anarchic. Itâs a lot freer than any other television programme Iâve presented in years, and anything can happen and quite often does. Itâs fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants television, which I quite enjoy.
Do you watch any other celebrity reality shows?
You know itâs funny, but I donât. Itâs not that I donât like them â when Iâve watched little bits, Iâve found them gripping as well â but because I dedicate so much of my life to Big Brother, and I literally watch it every night, I almost canât do that again with another programme. When Big Brother finally finishes, I will probably immerse myself in another programme, but at the moment I spend 16 or 17 weeks a year watching Big Brother or Celebrity Big Brother. Iâve not missed one episode.
Do you mean ever?
Ever. Every single night. Or Iâll Sky+ it. If Iâve missed two, Iâll watch three in a night. Iâve never, ever missed one. So thatâs quite a dedication of time. I know these programmes â once you get hooked in â require the same amount of dedication from you, so I just canât do it.
What is it about Celebrity Big Brother that makes it the best?
Itâs unique, completely unique. For celebrities not to have anyone around them â no make up artists, no hair stylists or anything. I know they donât have that in the jungle, but they have contact with the outside world, they have contact with Ant and Dec, itâs just very different. And in Big Brother you are isolated for quite a long time. And I think the thing that sets Big Brother apart from most other shows is the tasks. Theyâre very, very funny.
Why do you think celebrities decide to participate in the series?
I think mostly because theyâd like people to see them in a different light. Perhaps theyâve been seen in a negative light in the past, and theyâd like to redress that. Or they just like the idea of being part of it. Iâd love it, because I love the idea of doing the tasks. I love the idea of getting dressed up in silly costumes and playing games. I think it would be so funny. I donât think I could take the pressure of no contact, though. No reading, no television. Iâd go mad.
On the subject of the tasks, have you ever tried any of them out behind the scenes?
Not really, but Iâve tried the all-in-one suits that they put the electrodes on, where your muscles go into spasm. That was really funny. It was a thing where you just seize up completely â it didnât really hurt, but it felt horrible.
Who have been your favourite celebrity contestants over the years?
George Galloway probably gave me one of my favourite moments ever on the show, with him pretending to be a cat. Coolio and La Toya Jackson were great. And I quite liked watching Pete Burns.
What have been your favourite moments?
Well, clearly the cat moment was very funny and Gorillagate, with Pete Burnsâ coat. And Mark Owen winning, because there was such a big crowd, and they were all really screaming for him, and Take That had split up a couple of years before, and he just came out and whispered in my ear âIâve forgotten how to do this.â I thought it was so sweet.
Do any interviews stick in your mind as having been particularly uncomfortable or difficult?
Well, clearly Jade, Jo and Danielle. That was hard. I had to level the accusations thrown at them, but give them a chance to say their piece.
You tend to try and find the good in most housemates. Have there been any celebrity housemates you found difficult or didnât warm to?
As an avid fan, even people that I find hard work youâve got to laugh at, because weâve been entertained by them for three weeks. So, for example, George Galloway I thought was going to be quite a slippery customer, but he had made me laugh so much. And actually telling him about that, and showing it to him, he kind of dealt with it quite well, I thought. I do try and find the good in people, but I also definitely try and hold them accountable for their actions in the house.
Do you ever find that you donât like the ones you thought youâd like, and you do like the ones you thought you wouldnât?
Yes, definitely. And what happens â particularly in Big Brother more than Celebrity Big Brother â is that somebody I havenât particularly liked watching in the house then comes out and gives a great interview, and I think âGod, why didnât we see more of that when we were watching you?â
Who would be in your Celebrity Big Brother fantasy line-up?
Lindsay Lohan, Robbie Williams, George Michael. George Michael is an enigma, I love it. It would have to be people I donât know much about. People who are dark horses, a bit mysterious. Then you get to see a bit more about what makes them tick. And thatâs what itâs all about.
Brooke Kinsella is said to be in the running for a place in the new series of Celebrity Big Brother, according to a report.
27 December 2009 08:58 AM
Brooke Kinsella is said to be in the running for a place in the new series of Celebrity Big Brother, according to a report.
The 26-year-old actress is said under consideration for a place in the last ever series of the Channel 4 reality show.
The former EastEnders star is said to have a won a place on the list after Boy George lost his court battle to get leave to appear in the show
Sources told the Daily Star Sunday that show bosses are also concerned that they might lose Heidi Fleiss.
The Hollywood madam is currently on probation for having the painkiller hydrocodone without a prescription.
However, a term of her probation is that Fleiss must be available to undertake random drug testing and US authorities have insisted that Celebrity Big Brother Bosses ensure that she can meet this condition.
A source told the newspaper: "She desperately wants to appear in Celebrity Big Brother.
"But they should know that British authorities might have to interrupt proceedings to take a blood sample to ensure she hasn't been getting high."
Ekaterina Ivanova is planning to enter the Celebrity Big Brother house, according to rumours. The 22-year-old model recently split from her Rolling Stone's boyfriend, Ronnie Wood.
27 December 2009 00:00 AM
Ekaterina Ivanova is planning to enter the Celebrity Big Brother house, according to rumours. The 22-year-old model recently split from her Rolling Stone's boyfriend, Ronnie Wood.
She ended the relationship earlier this month after Wood allegedly assaulted her following a night out in Claygate.
It is rumoured that Ivanova could earn ÂĢ100,000 for taking part in the reality show.
A source told The Sun: "Ekaterina is just the type of feisty character we want on the show.
"She's also very high profile and will no doubt have some great gossip about what life was like living with one of Britain's biggest rock stars.
"I've no doubt Ronnie will come in for some stick."
They added: "She'll also appeal to younger viewers as she's quite the style icon. And I'm sure a few older male fans will seek her out."
Ivana Trump, Dane Bowers and Alex Reid have all been tipped to appear in Celebrity Big Brother which begins on January 3
